Sunday, April 2, 2023

DC UNIVERSE Month 62, Part 1

ACTION COMICS #1053 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Dan Jurgens, Leah Wiliams, Rafa Sandoval, Lee Weeks, and Marguerite Sauvage. Metallo brings and his creations attack Superman's family because he believes that Superman has kidnapped his sister. In the process, Supergirl is poisoned by Kryptonite. Superman visits with Lex, who says that Corben hearing voices is not good. Corben, still talking to his “sister”, is having issues with his body mutating and another voice in his head instructs him to kill Superman and his whole family. Jon tries to bond with the Super-Twins but it seems Otho has gone on a deadly rampage. In the second tale  Superman and Lois search for Jon after Doombreaker shows up. The robot captures Princess Glyanna and Jon takes also. Jon tries to engage their escape but he destroys the ship’s controls and the craft is now crashing to earth. In the final tale,  Power Girl, now going by the name of Paige, brings Jon Kent into her mind to lure out a villain who is targeting other heroes. Unfortunately, that draws out Johnny Sorrow.

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN: JON KENT #1 by Tom Taylor and Clayton Henry. Ultraman has decided it’s his mission to kill every Kal-El across the Multiverse. This leads to Val-Zod and the female Red Tornado to enlist Jon’s help to fight Ultraman, who was the villain who kept Jon trapped for so many years. , a pair of heroes enlist Jon Kent's help to stop his former tormentor. Red Tornado reveals that she is Lois Lane and she is asking for Jon’s help to stop Ultraman before it’s too late.

BATGIRLS #16 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, and Neil Googes. After reading a letter delivered to Grace last issue, the Batgirls follows White Rabbit clues, which leads them to Mad Hatter and his Bat Family puppets. After defeating the puppets, they give chase but Steph is hit with a gas that turns her into Girl-Bat. Cass brings the beast to her senses and they capture Hatter, who is charged with murder. In the end, the pair fly off together, where we presume an antidote will eventually be given.

BATMAN #133 by Chip Zdarsky, Mike Hawthorne, Adriano Di Benedetto. After the events of last issue, Batman dons his costume and plans to bring the legend of Batman to this new universe, with the first person he takes down is this universe’s version of The Riddler. This obviously gets the attention of Red Mask, who wants Selina to bring him Bruce Wayne. Meanwhile, Batman digs up the grave of Bruce Wayne but is caught by Alfred. He explains he S Bruce Wayne from another universe and he is trying to figure who killed this universe’s Bruce Wayne. He investigates the body and discovers there is Multiversal energy present, meaning he could be a Bruce from another universe too. Judge Dent sows up and, after using Venom, the pair fight. After defeating him, Selina arrives and tells Bruce she is willing to help to take down Red Mask and leads him to the caves under Arkham. In the backup, Robin battles Toyman and eventually gets back to our universe. Now he plans to use Toyman to bring Batman back home.

BATMAN INCORPORATED #6 by Ed Brisson and John Timms. The Riddler is being held and tortured by Professor Pyg and his Dollotrons. But The Riddler is not alone as it seems most of Gotham’s villains are also being held here. That beings Batman Incorporated, despite trust issues, into action to find him and stop him.

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #13 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. Smon Stagg has been murdered and it’s up to the World’s Finest team to figure it out. Their first logical suspect is Metamorpho but, after finding that to be inconclusive, Clark gets Jimmy to investigate. The results: Bruce Wayne is arrested for the murder.

BLACK ADAM #9 by Christopher Priest and Eddy Barrows. Adam gets his ring delivered back to him while War, Love and Gods investigate the city. Later, Oni Grace arrives, showing him the protests n the streets. She also relates the tale of how Teth Adam was killed by Ibac, but was reborn and eventually cursed to be Blac Adam. N the end, a mysterious visitor comes to the bedside of Malik.

BLUE BEETLE: GRADUATION DAY #5 by Josh Trujillo and Adrian Gutierrez. Various members of the Justice League show up to battle Nitida and Dynastes but that leads to Jaime and Starfire battling Cyborg and Black Condor. It’s revealed that The is not the real enemy here, but The Horizon is and they’ve arrived on Earth.

CATWOMAN #53 by Tini Howard and Nico Leon. The new Catwoman is dong her best to stop crime until she runs into the Crazy Eights. Meanwhile, Selina begins training her fellow prisoners in hopes of a potential breakout but those plans change when the Queen of Hearts ends up in the same jail.

DANGER STREET #4 by Tom King and Jorge Fornés. While the surviving Dingbats research who the blue man might be, J.P. Houston gets killed by Manhunter, who tells Assassin that he has three more boys to kill. Starman and Warlord get direction to the graveyard and beginning digging when they are visited by Orion. Later, while Jack Ryder is dealing with his boss at Green Team Headquarters, Assassin kills Grandmaster, who is, in fact, Manhunter’s father.

DETECTIVE COMICS #1070 by Ram V and Stefano Raffaele. Oracle reveals that Batgirl is in the tunnels and thinks that the Orghams have made their way into the tunnels in search of a long lost memory. Batman meets with Talia who tells him that Azren Orgham’s father had sent out his most trusted to save the most precious things in the world. Among those servants was the man who eventually killed him: Ra’s Al Ghul. While searching for answers, Oracle is visited by Arclight of The Vigil, telling her that the situation needs to be fixed or The Vigil will fix it for them. In the backup, Mr. Freeze is still experimenting with little success. Luckily, a certain boy with no name arrives and attempts to free Annabel Mead.

THE FLASH #794 by Jeremy Adams and Roger Cruz. Jay has been captured by The Fraction, Wally is dead and Irey, with the code name of Thunderheart, has to fight Miss Murder by herself. Luckily she gets an assist from Superman. Among the heartbreak of Wally’s death, Barry figures out how to win, by making sure these events never happened in the first place, technically saving Wally and Iris. On the ship, Jay gets free and now has a gun, which means he is ready to fight back.

THE FLASH #795 by Jeremy Adams and Roger Cruz, George Kambadias and Fernando Pasarin. The team launches their attack on The Fraction while Wally awakes to find he is not dead . . . he’s on Planet Flash.

GCPD: THE BLUE WALL #6 by John Ridley and Stefano Raffaele. With Danny terrorizes the town, Montoya decides she is going after him herself, especially after getting information from Eric, which upsets Sam. Danny’s father is brought in and charged with obstruction, which leads Montoya to meet with Sam and get Luis Ortega’s phone back, allowing her to track Danny. She confronts him and gets him to surrender. In the end, life gets back to normal and she had another park date with Aliyah.

GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE #6 by Tom King and Phil Hester. After taking out Richard Wayne’s bodyguards, he confronts Wayne and his wife. The pair begin to fight while Mrs. Wayne reveals how she found a cave beneath the Manson filled with clothing from Richard’s various sexual conquests. She has figured out that he arranged the kidnapping of his own daughter and she kills her husband. She then goes on to explain that her daughter drowned in her own vomit, so she took her daughter and buried her. Her story is going to be that her husband took his own life and she will beg for peace in Gotham, making her the hero of the story. With an influx of money, Wayne Chemical gets built and, many years later, becomes Ace Chemical. Year later, she shows up at Slam’s office, asking him to be a mentor to her son Thomas.

HARLEY QUINN #28 by Tini Howard and Sweeney Boo. Harley finds herself bored because Ivy’s out of town so she engages in a war with Two-Face. Kevin calls the police on her and she is sentenced to community service, leading to her teaching at a local community college. Two-Face attacks her at the college but she defeats hm with a giant, smiling fish. This brings Lady Quark not the picture, explaining that Harley s accidentally punching through the walls of the Multiverse, and if this continues Lady Quar will destroy Gotham and Harley and the world.

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